As a parent, the post-sex scene with Skye and her boyfriend was very disappointing to me. It was completely gratuitous, not to mention the acting during that scene was horrendous. I was hoping this series would be safe to watch with young teens/tweens. Guess maybe not. Not sure how this episode rated TV-PG. I guess nearly naked women are just the norm these days...

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Originally Posted by dtle

So you have no problems with them showing a human being charred to death right in front of your eyes? Typical American parents....

That's interesting; no where in his statement did I read that he has "...no problems with them showing a human being charred to death..."

Lots of bad acting in this episode. I mostly liked the plotting, but the actors kept pulling me out of the story.

One thing I find interesting about this show is that SHIELD is kind of a d*ck. The Rising Tide, as stupid as such as thing is an an adversary, isn't automatically on the wrong side of things because there's a ton of moral and ethical (and legal) ambiguity in what SHIELD does. That's pretty cool. I think the show is aware of it, but what I can't tell yet is whether it cares. That is, I don't know whether the show think it's enough just to show these cards, or whether it has the ambition (or skill) to actually play them out.

Some comic book nerd (NERDS!) can correct me.. but wasn't Scorch's power essentially exactly the same as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four?

(or is this the "bad and good versions of the same character" kind of thing they seem to do?)

I only have a casual knowledge of the comics (I actually know more about comic book characters based on their movies than I do based on their comics), but Scorch seemed to me to be very similar to Pyro from X-Men, except that he can also actually spontaneously generate fire.

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